Valtteri Bottas extends contract with Mercedes for 2020 season
IANS | August 29, 2019 17:53 ISTValtteri Bottas put pen to paper a one-year contract with an extension option for 2020, which Mercedes have exercised.
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Valtteri Bottas put pen to paper a one-year contract with an extension option for 2020, which Mercedes have exercised.
Lewis Hamilton extended his lead at the top of the F1 standings with a thrilling win in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton is now only 10 wins behind seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher's record of 91.
Lewis Hamilton clocked the fastest lap in the free practice on Friday ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Verstappen kept his composure on a treacherous track to clinch his second victory this season and seventh of his Red Bull career, topping a surprise podium ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.
The disappointment continued for Ferrari, as both the cars faced technical issues, while Lewis Hamilton clinched the pole position at the German Grand Prix.
Melbourne will host the Formula 1 Grand Prix until at least 2025, officials on Friday revealed, announcing a two-year extension for racing at the city's iconic Albert Park circuit.
By beating Bottas by almost 25 seconds, Hamilton extended his championship lead over the Finn to 39 points and moved ahead of Jim Clark and Alain Prost to take the record for British GP victories.
"I don't understand why the organisers put the race on the same day as all these other big events," Hamilton said on Thursday at Silverstone in the pre-race press conference.
Chasing the leading trio, the Red Bull driver used all of his overtaking skills to get past Sebastian Vettel and Valtteri Bottas in the closing stages of the race.
Lewis Hamilton's win looked easy as he finished 18 seconds ahead of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and 19 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.
Sebastian Vettel had been given a five-second time penalty for an incident which happened with a little more than 20 laps to go and despite Vettel taking the checkered flag, that penalty gave Lewis Hamilton the win.
Niki Lauda, who died on May 20, had played a key role in bringing Hamilton to Mercedes in 2013 and the two had become close friends.
After five races and no wins for either Sebastian Vettel or Charles Leclerc, Ferrari's hopes of ending the dominance of Mercedes are already hanging by a thread.
Niki Lauda won the F1 drivers' championship in 1975 and 1977 with Ferrari and again in 1984 with McLaren.
Earlier, Harry Shaw, from Surrey, sent Hamilton, a five-time Formula One World Champion, a good luck message on Instagram from his hospital bed.
Hamilton's third win of the campaign let him take the championship lead by seven points over Bottas, who had entered the race with a one-point advantage.
Bottas, who leads Hamilton by one point in the standings, got back out with 15 minutes left of the session and clocked the third fastest time.
That was the fourth straight one-two finish for Mercedes, the best start to a season by a two-car team in Formula One history.
Hamilton compared Leclerc's situation to his own debut season at McLaren in 2007, when he was alongside then-reigning champion Fernando Alonso.
Lewis Hamilton and teammate Valtteri Bottas completed their third straight double in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton won at a canter despite Mercedes lagging behind the red Ferraris for most of the race in Bahrain.
Leclerc topped all three sections of qualifying, having already been quickest in two of the three practice sessions.
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